spotting Error Topic-Adjective

#spotting Error #everydayquiz #Adjective
a) Anurag is eclipsed by his wife, / (b) who is cleverer and / (c) amusing than

he is. /(d) No error

ADD MORE before amusing..as there is cleverer

(a) The two first to arrive / (b) were the lucky recipients / (c) of a surprise
gift. /(d) No errorthe first two is right 

(a) Of the billions of stars in the galaxy, (b) how much are / (c) suitable for life? / (d)
No error

howMANY are suitable,,because we can count them

(a) A few word of / (b) gratitude are enough / (c) to express your / (d) feelings sincerely.
/ (e) No error.a few is used with plural, so change word to WORDS

(a) He feels his troubles / (b) as much or / (c) even more than they. / (d) No errorcorrect use  is AS MUCH AS

(a) I like reading / (b) more than / (c) to play games. / (d) No errorlike READING, PLAYING will also be in gerund(v+ing)

(a) There is not many traffic / (b) along the street / (c) where I live. / (d) No errortraffic is uncountable so use MUCH instead of MANY

(a) The police arrived and discovered / (b) a large number of hoarded sugar/ (c) in
his shop. / (d) No errorSUGAR is uncountable noun so use QUANTITY instead of number.. so LARGE QUANTITY

(a) As a dramatist / (b) Shaw is superior than / (c) any other twentieth century
writer. / (d) No errorSUPERIOR takes TO not THAN 

(a) Of the two great cities/ (b) the former is / (c) biggest. / (d) No erroruse BIGGER because when we compare two things we use BIGGER not BIGGEST

(a) A non banking financial company is a / (b) financial institution similarly to a
bank / (c) but it cannot issue cheque books to customers. / (d) No errorSIMILARLY is adverb   but here we need SIMILAR only, so use SIMILAR TO A BANK

(a) Everyone agrees that / (b) the Ganga is the holiest / (c) of all other rivers of
India. / (d) No error.ALL OTHERS RIVERS will be replaced by ALL  THE RIVERS,,, WE DON'T use other in superlative degree

(a) Krishna ran to the / (b) nearing grocery store to / (c) buy biscuits as his parents
were expecting guests. / (d) No errornearing is gerund of the near,, NEARBY is adjective , so use NEARBY

(a) While giving a loan/ (b) you must check / (c) if the borrower has sufficiently
collateral to repay it. / (d) No errorSUFFICIENT COLLATERAL

(a) Although his speech / (b) was not very clearly everyone understood / (c) the
underlying meaning. / (d) No erroruse CLEAR.. SO NOT VERY CLEAR

(a) He is the most / (b) intelligent and also / (c) the very talented student of the
college. / (d) No errorif we are adding two adjectives with conjuction then both must be same,, here THE MOST INTELLIGENT so use THE MOST TALENTED

(a) Having been found / (b) guilty of the theft / (c) Sunny was sentenced to five
year’s imprisonment. / (d) No error

FIVE YEAR 

(a) The Railways have made / (b) crossing the tracks / (c) a punished offence. / (d)
No errorA PUNISHABLE OFFENCE 

(a) Alms / (b) are given / (c) to the poors. / (d) No erroralms: money, clothes, food, and other things given to poor people.

TO THE POOR is right

(a) Lasers are / (b) indispensable tools / (c) for the delicate eyes surgery. / (d) No
errorin eyes surgery , eye is a noun,, which is acting as  adjective for the surgery.when noun acts as a adjective ,, we use singular form... so EYE SURGERY 

(a) The number of applications has risen / (b) this year by / (c) as many as 50%. /
(d) No error

AS MUCH AS 50%  

OR USE BY 50% ONLY ,,REMOVE AS MANY AS

(a) Two lakh of people / (b) attended the meeting / (c) held in parade ground. / (d) No
errorTWO LAKH PEOPLE IS RIGHT..

OR 

LAKHS OF PEOPLE IS ALSO RIGHT 

WE DONT  USE OF WITH DEFINATE NUMBER

(a) These sort of men / (b) attain success by hook or by crook / (c) so they do not
deserve any applause. (d) No errorTHESE is PLURAL, so use SORTS instead of SORT

(a) Can you tell me how / (b) many eggs and / (c) milk he has brought / (d) No errorEGGS countable howmany is ok.but milk is uncountable so use HOWMUCH for it ,,(C)

(a) Whole the chapter / (b) is full of printing errors which are the outcome / (c) of
the proof reader’s carelessness. (d) No error

 we use THE before WHOLE,, not after it,, so correct is THE WHOLE CHAPTER

(a) Her black long / (b) hair adds / (c) glamour to her looks. (d) No error

HER LONG BLACK 

ADJECTIVE OF SIZE COMES FIRST BEFORE THE ADJECTIVE OF COLORS

(a) I trembled when I saw / (b) a sharp long knife / (c) in his hand. / (d) No errorLONG SHARP KNIFE

(a) I saw / (b) an anxious pale girl / (c) who was fidgetting near the ICU / (d) No errorADJECTIVE OF HUMAN EMOTION IS USED AFTER ADJECTIVE OF COLOUR ,

SO USE A PALE ANXIOUS GIRL

(a) Mumbai is / (b) further from / (c) Delhi than / (d) Patna. (e) No error

FARTHER FOR DISTANCE 

(a) This book is / (b) undoubtedly preferable than / (c) that and its printing / (d) is
also comparatively good. (e) No errorPREFERABLE takes TO,, not THAN

(a) You can trust / (b) this channel/ (c) for the last news of this hour. (d) No erroruse LATEST instead of LAST

(a) Everybody knows / (b) that Radha is the most unique / (c) singer of this college
/ (d) No erroradjectives - interior, exterior, ulterior, major, minor, empty, excellent, circular,extreme, chief, entire, complete, perfect, final, last, unique, universal, round,square, triangular, eternal, everlasting ideal, absolute, impossible , supreme

THESE ARE NOT USED IN COMPARATIVE DEGREE AND SUPERLATIVE DEGREE

(a) The faster he completes / (b) the work given to / (c) him, the largest will be his
profit. / (d) No error.

FOR SIMULTANEOUS INCREASE OR DECREASE we use double comparative degree..

so use THE LARGER (C)

(a) He does not have / (b) some money to buy a new machine so he is / (c) anxious
/ (d) No error

we use SOME in positive sentence 

and in negative sentence we use ANY

SO ANY MONEY

(a) This young lady is / (b) more beautiful but not so cultured / (c) as her sister. (d)
No erroraftEr more beautiful use THAN

a) Now-a-days, / (b) the weather / (c) is getting cold and colder. / (d) No error

WHEN THERE IS GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT WE USE comparative degree.

so use COLDER AND COLDER

(a) This photograph / (b) was comparatively better / (c) than that which he had kept
in his purse. / (d) No error

WITH COMPARATIVELY  WE DONT USE COMPARATIVE DEGREE... SO use 

GOOD

(a) Ram is as good, / (b) if not better than / (c) they./ (d) No errorAS GOOD AS

(a) Gopal felt happily / (b) to learn that I / (c) had got a job in the Bank./ (d) No error

AFTER verbs of sensation (look, sum,appear, feel, smell, taste & sound) WE DON'T USE ADVERB

HAPPY IS RIGHT

a) He is comparatively / (b) weaker / (c) in maths / (d) no error

WEAK

(a) Many a / (b) boys are / (c) absent today / (d) no error.

MANY A +SINGULAR NOUN+SINGULAR VERB

SO MANY A BOY IS 
Many accidents TAKE place in this busy highway 


Many AN ACCIDENT TAKES place in this busy highway

(a) Honest are / (b) rewarded / (c) sooner or later / (d) no error.
HONEST  IS adjective.. it can work as noun only when , when we add THE .
so THE HONEST


(a) My all / (b) friends will come / (c) tomorrow to meet me / (d) no errorUSE ALL MY...instead of my all


(a) He is wiser / (b) enough to / (c) understand your trick / (d) no error

before enough we use positive degree... SO  USE ONLY  WISE..

HE IS WISE ENOUGH TO ..

(a) Ramayana is more / (b) sacred than / (c) all the mythologies of Hindus / (d) no
errorALL OTHER MYTHOLOGIES ,,because we need to exclude "RAMAYANA"

(a) He offered / (b) me a / (c) steamed cup of tea / (d) no error.steaming cup of tea,,, 

(a) I will buy / (b) the book when / (c) the revise edition will come / (d) no error.

revised edition... 

(a) He ran so fastly / (b) that he reached / (c) the destination in just two minutes. /
(d) No errorso fast that

(a) I am sure that / (b) all my monthly expenses / (c) would exceed the income if I do
not economise. / (d) No errorALL will not be used here,,monthly expenses means all the expenses

(a) I am more lonelier/ (b) here than/ (c) I was in the USA./ (d) No error.REMOVE MORE

(a) To me it appears that/ (b) Anthropology is the more interesting/ (c) of all the
subjects./ (d) No error

THE MOST INTERESTING

(a) The circulation of The Statesman/ (b) is greater than/ (c) that of any newspaper/
(d) No errorANY OTHER NEWS PAPER,,,, BECAUSE IF WE USE ANY NEWSPAPAER then "the statesman" also come in that category

(a) In the garden/ (b) were the more beautiful flowers/ (c) and silver bells./ (d) No error.change more to most

(a) In his old age,/ (b) a person is likely to get/ (c) more weak day by day./ (d) No error.change more weak to weaker..